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Red Faction: Origins (2011)
, 1h30Directed by Michael Nankin
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Films set in the future, Space opera, Films based on video games
Actors Robert Patrick, Tamzin Merchant, Brian J. Smith, Danielle Nicolet, Kate Vernon, Devon Graye
The film begins 25 years after the revolution. Alec (Robert Patrick) has become a sullen, retiring man burdened over losing his wife and daughter, while Jake is now a lieutenant in the Colonists. Jake is informed that the remains of the EDF Dreadnought Hydra—destroyed in orbit by Alec at the end of the revolution—is falling to Mars and must be searched for valuable technology. When searching the Hydra, with the help of Tess, an Earth technology expert, he discovers a group of Marauders dressed similar to the ones he remembers kidnapping Lyra, carrying away a device from the ship. Jake attacks one to discover it is a soldier who he believes to be Lyra.
, 1h40Directed by Claude Legault
Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action
Themes Space adventure films, Dans l'espace, Comedy science fiction films, Films set in the future, Space opera
Actors Stéphane Crête, Sylvie Moreau (actrice québécoise), Claude Legault, Didier Lucien, Mélanie Maynard, Bosse
L'histoire commence alors que l'équipage du Romano Fafard tourne une vidéo destinée aux terriens concernant leur sonde #5. Quelques jours auparavant, le capitaine Patenaude et Serge-18 consultent les résultats de la sonde. Pendant leur analyse des planètes, la sonde percute un chevreuil spatial, ce qui la fait s'écraser sur la planète «Crème hydratante pour le visage soulage la peau sèche». Une fois sur la planète, à la suite d'une fausse alerte de Flavien et un problème avec Brad, l'équipage se fait encercler par les «Crémeux». À la suite d'un tir de charge débilitante par Brad (qui fait répéter à un soldat « On vote Mario Dumont »), l'équipage est contraint de se donner une fausse identité et leur explique leur problème. Une fois le gouverneur suprême informé de la situation, les terriens sont, à cause de Bob, obligé de leur dire la vérité, ce que le gouverneur dit ne pas se soucier, à la joie de ces derniers. Alors que le gouverneur est sur le point de leur révéler l'emplacement de la sonde, un attentat éclate et ce dernier est blessé et conduit à bord du vaisseau. Avant l'évacuation de l'équipage, Bob reçoit un mot de la messagère, que Bob croit être un mouchoir, qu'il utilise et garde sur lui. Lors de l'opération du gouverneur, ce dernier parvient à articuler que la sonde est sur la planète des iraziens et que c'est la planète traversée par un anneau ("Le capitaine et Serge 18 ont sondé cette planète") . Le problème étant que le capitaine est très strict sur son éthique et ne veut pas attaquer une planète habitée, ce qui cause des conflits au sein de l'équipage, surtout avec Brad. Lors d'une nuit où le capitaine s'endort sur place (debout), Brad explique le fonctionnement des cartes du vaisseau et du canon au gouverneur. Cette nuit même, ce dernier parvient à tirer un missile vers les iraziens mais rate la cible, ce qui a été déjoué par Flavien. Alors que le gouverneur est en prison et que Brad est sur le point subir le même sort, Flavien informe l'équipage que le missile lancé était un «Génération X», ce qui signifie qu'il finit toujours par revenir vivre chez ses parents (il revient vers le vaisseau). Flavien tire donc un autre missile sur le premier. Le souffle de l'explosion propulse le vaisseau dans les limbes. À l'intérieur, des fantômes leur révèlent qu'il reste six mois de vie sur Terre, ce qui pousse le capitaine à laisser de côté ses principes et prendre de force la planète des iraziens.
Directed by Philip Kaufman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Political films, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols
In the original treatment by Chris Bryant and Allan Scott, the USS Enterprise investigates the disappearance of the USS DaVinci. Upon arriving at the last known location, they find no other ship, but Captain James T. Kirk is struck by electromagnetic waves and leaves the Enterprise in a shuttlecraft. He pilots it out into space and disappears. Three years pass and the Enterprise returns to the area under Captain Gregory Westlake, after picking up Spock, who had retired from Starfleet and returned to Vulcan. The crew discovers a previously hidden planet at the location where Kirk vanished. They believe it to be the planet of the Titans, a mythical and powerful alien race. However, the planet is being drawn into a black hole. The Klingons also want to claim the planet. Spock travels to the surface and finds Kirk, who has been living on the planet for three years. Together, they discover the planet is inhabited by the Cygnans, who destroyed the Titans. The planet and the Enterprise enter the black hole, with the Cygnans being destroyed in the process. The ship emerges in orbit of Earth during the Paleolithic era, and the crew teach early man to make fire, in effect becoming the Titans themselves, in essence a reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Planet of the Titans also explored the concept of the third eye, and was later compared to the appearance of the Greek Gods in the original series episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?".
Genres Science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Space opera
Lost on Mars was based on what it might have been like if Mars was populated with a civilization and had an atmosphere billions of years ago. Space Command sends a rocket ship to Mars to investigate a signal that Earth received from Mars. Once the crew arrives on the planet they encounter strange things beneath the surface of the planet. Alex Quin an astronaut enters a monument on Mars where he finds a room full of gold and silver, he also finds a strange box; within this box there is a device which he takes back to the ship. A violent storm erupts on his way back and the rocket ship needs to take off immediately before it strikes. The crew tries to launch but it's too late and the storm hits the ship hard making the ship go out of control directing the ship back towards the planet. One of the astronauts notices something very strange on her monitor which shows in the cargo bay there is a very strong energy field being created. The energy is coming from the box that Alex brought aboard. This energy force is what creates a door way back into time, a door way back into Mar's past. Once they travel back into time the three astronauts find a strange new world, a world of barbaric proportions. While on the surface of Mars they are imprisoned tortured and brought forth to the Siperion Empire for their judgment. Their only hope is to figure out how to get back to their ship in hope they can return home.
Escape from Galaxy 3 (1981)
, 1h32Directed by Bitto Albertini
Origin Italie
Genres Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Space opera
Actors Attilio Dottesio, Marina Hedman
In a distant galaxy, aboard a space station, Princess Belle Star (Sherry Buchanan) approaches her father King Ceylon (Auran Cristea) with her Space Captain, Lithan (James Milton). She advises that their scanners have detected a ship that doesn't belong in their galaxy. The King declares that Oraclon "The King of the Night" (Don Powell) has come to take over his territories. Lithan suggests they put plan Epsilon into action.
Star Crystal (1986)
, 1h31Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Adventure, Horror
Themes Space adventure films, Space opera
The movie begins in the year 2032, when an expedition on Mars finds a buried egg that they take to the ship. The egg hatches, revealing a crystal and (presumably) a slimy creature that hides on the ship. After the astronauts decided to use the crystal on a large laser cannon, they all die when their air supply runs out.
, 1h5Directed by David Hartman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Animation
Themes Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Robot films, Disaster films
Actors Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, John Noble, Steven Blum, Nolan North, Kevin Michael Richardson
Not long after Megatron's demise and the restoration of Cybertron, the Autobots celebrate as Bumblebee is promoted to warrior class by Optimus Prime. The festivities end, however, when Optimus sets out on a journey to find the AllSpark, the source of new life on Cybertron, and takes Wheeljack with him to find it so that new Transformers can come into being. Ultra Magnus is left in charge in Prime's absence to hunt down the missing Starscream, Shockwave, and Predaking with the other Autobots. Meanwhile on Earth, at the bottom of the ocean, Megatron's consciousness is reawakened by Unicron, who seeks to destroy his arch-enemy Primus, the very core of Cybertron, and requires Megatron's body to do so. Unicron reformats Megatron into a body with new upgrades before heading to Cybertron. In the meantime, Ultra Magnus and Smokescreen continue to search for the fugitive Decepticons in the Sea of Rust, but are soon attacked by the Predacons Skylynx and Darksteel. After a brutal fight, Magnus is severely damaged and Smokescreen barely makes it through the space bridge with him. The damage is so critical that the Autobots are forced to call in Ratchet from Earth for assistance while the Autobots deduce that the two new Predacons must be creations of Shockwave. Meanwhile, Starscream and Shockwave are revealed to have restarted "Project: Predacon" and plan to create an army with Skylynx and Darksteel being their first creations.
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Space opera
Empire of Danger is about a rescue mission sent to Mars to find out what happened to the astronauts from the first mission to Mars. A rocket is launched towards Mars with an experimental spacecraft capable of traveling through time. The astronauts attempt to travel back through time over 300 billion years ago into Mars past in hope of finding out why Space command lost contact with the first mission. As the spacecraft attempts to travel back in time, Earth urgently tries to send a radio transmission to abort their mission. The crew receives the information but it's to late and they travel back into Mars past anyway throwing them ten years off their projected time curve from the first crew. Once on the planet surface they encounter a world with a thriving atmosphere, a world similar to Earth but controlled by the Siperion Empire a ruthless barbarian culture who are at war with an alliance of planets in their home solar system. Mars was taken from the alliance by the Siperion army during the war. The planet is used for mining raw minerals and used as a Top secret base to construct weapons of mass destruction to destroy their enemy's with.
, 52minutesOrigin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Animation
Themes Films about children, Time travel films, Films set in the future, Batman films, Superman films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Superhero films, Super-héros inspiré de comics, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Diedrich Bader, Laura Bailey, Dante Basco, Grey DeLisle, Corey Burton, Peter Jessop (II)
In the present day, Lex Luthor and his Legion of Doom try to use cryogenic rays from orbital satellites to expand the Earth's polar ice caps in the Arctic Ocean, causing a massive drop in sea levels and creating new islands they intend to rule. Superman and the Justice League confront the Legion, dividing their forces to fight the Legion and destroy the satellites. In the ensuing space battle, Robin purposely crashes his spacecraft into the satellite array. Refusing to accept defeat, Captain Cold overloads the remaining satellite, which falls back to Earth and entombs Luthor in an ice sheet shortly before the satellite explodes. The League is triumphant and believes Luthor to be dead.
, 47minutesGenres Science fiction, Action, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Robot films, Disaster films
Actors Takashi Matsuyama, Hozumi Gōda, Takehito Koyasu
In Gaea’s atmosphere the Jointrons and the Seacons battle each other but both factions are interrupted by the arrival of a large space ship which rams into them and sends them all flying into space before crash landing on the planet, and the Maximals and Predacons are immediately alerted. On the Galvaburg II, Gigastorm recommends destroying the ship but Galvatron is interested and believes it may hold good fortune for the Predacons. On the Yukikaze Lio Convoy orders a unit sent to investigate the ship but Lio Junior, Lio Convoy’s son, wishes to go but the other Maximals shoot him down, but Tasmania Kid stands up for him and asks if both can go and Lio Convoy approves and has Stanton and Skywarp accompany also. The 4 Maximals arrive at the ship and discover a “teleport gate”, an ancient device capable of opening a doorway into the past and transporting any living creature into the present, Transformers included but it requires a control unit to function. When Lio Junior finds it the Predacon Combaticons Hellscream, Dirgegun, Thrustor and Max-B swoop in and steals it but Lio Junior dives off after it alone and the Predacons overpower and nearly kill him, but before Hellscream can fire a finishing blow Kid takes the hit as the other Maximals arrive and scare off the Predacons and secure the control unit.
Prelude to Axanar (2014)
, 21minutesOrigin USA
Genres Science fiction, War, Documentary
Themes Space adventure films, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Kate Vernon, Tony Todd, Richard Hatch, Gary Graham, J. G. Hertzler
The film is presented as an episode of a Federation documentary pertaining to the Four Years War with the Klingon Empire, narrated by noted historian John Gill (who appeared in "Patterns of Force") and featuring interviews of actual participants on both sides. It begins on Stardate 2241.03, two decades before the original series, with the war's opening battle at Arcanis IV, a prosperous Federation colony along the Klingon border. The Klingons, who did not consider the Federation to be a worthy adversary, maintained the initiative for the first six months of the war, with a number of victories under the leadership of their supreme commander, Kharn. The Vulcan diplomatic delegation under Ambassador Soval (who appeared in Enterprise), overseeing negotiations with the Klingons, are left with little room to maneuver.
, 54minutesOrigin France
Genres Documentary
Themes La bande dessinée, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur la bande dessinée, Space opera
Actors Pierre Christin, Enki Bilal, Luc Besson, René Goscinny, Jorge Semprún
Un documentaire qui raconte la création de Valérian, la célèbre saga de bandes dessinées de Christin et Mézières. Avril Tembouret n’a pas fait un énième documentaire sur Valérian. Il a su remonter la piste en particulier pour les lecteurs qui n’ont pas, comme, et oui, certains vécus en direct, depuis le début l’épopée dans Pilote. Suivons Mézières en cow-boy, “appelé par les USA où il va aller voir ce qui se passe au début de l’ère spatiale” c’est déjà un début. Il y retrouve son copain, un certain Pierre Christin : “J’avais un goût immodéré des écrivains anglo-saxons. J’ai fait un voyage initiatique”. Et ils vont commencer à travailler ensemble avec un film, Ghetto, sur la ségrégation. Tembouret en montre des extraits. Mézières c’est la caméra, Christin le script. La pièce est jouée. Désormais le duo est formé. Leurs rôles sont complémentaires.